I'm building a hybrid bass with a braced acoustic top. I won't actually be using it unplugged, and am really just trying to pick up vibrations from the top through piezos mounted to the bridge plate (which will be pretty thick, for what it's worth). So here's a crazy idea I had. Build an oversized bridge, machine a tune-o-matic to remove some of the mass on the bottom, recess it into the bridge like a saddle, bolt it to the bridge plate, and use normal bridge pins rather than a tailpiece. Sort of like this:
Or this:
It's not exactly something Torres would probably do, but can you think of any reason it wouldn't work? It seems to me that the top would move in much the same way it would with a traditional saddle, because of the bridge pins. And it's basically a hybrid of an archtop bridge and an acoustic bridge, except that the bridge should move more like an acoustic bridge than an archtop bridge, as I understand it.
I can't figure out why nobody's done this, but I'm certain there's a good reason. Anybody?
Thanks in advance!
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